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- catalog abstract ""Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman was written in 1940 but his publishers rejected it for being 'too fantastic'. Since its posthumous release in 1967 it has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on At Swim-Two-Birds (1939). In this first novel O'Brien had confronted two towering traditions: the jaded legacy of Yeats' Celtic Twilight and the problematic complexities of Joyce's modernism. With The Third Policeman O'Brien forges a unique synthesis between these two traditions, and the paraliterary path he pursues marks the historical transition from modernism to post-modernism." "This formalist study is a tribal retrieval of O'Brien's work which reconfigures him as a powerful voice within a dynamic and fertile landscape; indisputably Irish yet distinctly post-modern. It identifies The Third Policeman as a subversive intellectual satire, in the cutting-edge tradition of Swift and Sterne, and situates it as one of the earliest - and most exciting - examples of post-modernist fiction."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Portrait of the artist as a young post-modernist".
- catalog contributor b7621497.
- catalog coverage "Ireland In literature.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman was written in 1940 but his publishers rejected it for being 'too fantastic'. Since its posthumous release in 1967 it has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on At Swim-Two-Birds (1939). In this first novel O'Brien had confronted two towering traditions: the jaded legacy of Yeats' Celtic Twilight and the problematic complexities of Joyce's modernism. With The Third Policeman O'Brien forges a unique synthesis between these two traditions, and the paraliterary path he pursues marks the historical transition from modernism to post-modernism." "This formalist study is a tribal retrieval of O'Brien's work which reconfigures him as a powerful voice within a dynamic and fertile landscape; indisputably Irish yet distinctly post-modern. It identifies The Third Policeman as a subversive intellectual satire, in the cutting-edge tradition of Swift and Sterne, and situates it as one of the earliest - and most exciting - examples of post-modernist fiction."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Beyond the Celtic twilight zone: shamanism, post-modernism and formalism -- The two towers: the filty modern tide meets the Celtic toilet -- 'Is it a bicycle?': censorship, sex and the metonymic code -- Character building: the role of the self-conscious narrator -- This is not a pipe: frame-breaking strategies -- Paradise lost, paradise regained: Flann O'Brien and the dialogic imagination -- Relative worlds: Kit Marlowe meets Philip Marlowe in the fourth dimension.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-284) and index.".
- catalog extent "292 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1859180418".
- catalog identifier "1859180426 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Ireland In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland.".
- catalog subject "828/.91209 20".
- catalog subject "Experimental fiction, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "O'Brien, Flann, 1911-1966 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR6029.N56 Z7 1995".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature) Ireland.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Beyond the Celtic twilight zone: shamanism, post-modernism and formalism -- The two towers: the filty modern tide meets the Celtic toilet -- 'Is it a bicycle?': censorship, sex and the metonymic code -- Character building: the role of the self-conscious narrator -- This is not a pipe: frame-breaking strategies -- Paradise lost, paradise regained: Flann O'Brien and the dialogic imagination -- Relative worlds: Kit Marlowe meets Philip Marlowe in the fourth dimension.".
- catalog title "Flann O'Brien : a portrait of the artist as a young post-modernist / Keith Hopper.".
- catalog title "Portrait of the artist as a young post-modernist".
- catalog type "text".